Thread: Training While Still Sore

how long ago did do a tri workout to make them sore?

i would workout my chest with sore triceps but i'm not really afraid of overtraining at all like a lot of people are.

I have this picture of muscle rebuilding itself bigger after it has been torn. I think it makes it slower to rebuild if you are working it while sore.

hmmm I wonder the same Mike. Ive been very sorry with this Westside training, and even training a bodypart again regardless of its condition.

I would think that its fine... as from my understanding most are who train in such ways..(as I am sure you know anyways).

Originally posted by MonStar
I am trying to get some opinions of training while you're still sore. For example my triceps are still sore, would it be an awful idea to train my chest? I mean I am sure that my strength would be okay, but I just mean in terms of hypertrophy, etc. Is it a bad idea?

you can do an active recovery workout. but you have to use around 50-65% of the load that you used the previous workout...

I don't know guys, I have read that it can take up to 2 weeks to fully recover from an intense workout. Now most of the time you would give it about a week for recovery, but that still means that the muscles are still healing, as well as your Central nervous system. I don't think I would do much of anything unless it is like what LAM said. You may want to consider re-working your split.

that is exactly why it's good to cycle work-outs each week:

example:

week 1 heavy
week 2 lite
week 3 moderate

that type of thing.

as far as the original question, I think it's fine to train chest providing that your triceps have had at least 48 hours of recovery time, but I would not directly train a sore muscle, unless it had been at least 5 days, and then I would probably make a "lite" work-out.

Originally posted by MonStar
I am trying to get some opinions of training while you're still sore. For example my triceps are still sore, would it be an awful idea to train my chest? I mean I am sure that my strength would be okay, but I just mean in terms of hypertrophy, etc. Is it a bad idea?

it all depends. there 3 varying levels of soreness. if you are sore to the point that you are sitting there relaxed and still your tris are sore then I would defn let them recover.
here is a good read addressing muscle damage and what not. check it out:
http://www.t-mag.com/articles/164mm2.html